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anybody want to let me know how its going on your patch
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![]() dahliaman.wrote anybody want to let me know how its going on your patch Too wet and muddy to do anything other than continue to crop the Sprouts, Winter Tundra cabbage, the Savoys, Leeks, and Parsnips. Should be getting two loads of well rotted horse manure delivered this weekend but the weather does not look promising for spreading that lot over next seasons potato/squash plot. -- Regards Bob Hobden |
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![]() "Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... dahliaman.wrote anybody want to let me know how its going on your patch Too wet and muddy to do anything other than continue to crop the (snip) Leeks, and Parsnips. I took SWMBO up there last week, she sank. And now, after threatening for the last two years, work has commenced towards connecting the adjoining houses to mains sewerage. What this means in practice is that I have to park down the bottom end of the site and walk up because the track to the top end has been ripped to shreds by their trucks and a JCB. Oh, and when I'm in the greenhouse, the bucket of said JCB is about 12" from my head, excavating an enormous hole on the allotment next to mine. They're going to tunnel their pipe under my G/H and under the rest of my allotment, and later some other contractors will come and dig two "connection pits" on my plot to join up to the pipe they're laying now. Doubtless this will involve more track shredding and destruction. Apart from all that, everything is just peachy. Steve |
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![]() "shazzbat" wrote "Bob Hobden"wrote in message dahliaman.wrote anybody want to let me know how its going on your patch Too wet and muddy to do anything other than continue to crop the (snip) Leeks, and Parsnips. I took SWMBO up there last week, she sank. And now, after threatening for the last two years, work has commenced towards connecting the adjoining houses to mains sewerage. What this means in practice is that I have to park down the bottom end of the site and walk up because the track to the top end has been ripped to shreds by their trucks and a JCB. Oh, and when I'm in the greenhouse, the bucket of said JCB is about 12" from my head, excavating an enormous hole on the allotment next to mine. They're going to tunnel their pipe under my G/H and under the rest of my allotment, and later some other contractors will come and dig two "connection pits" on my plot to join up to the pipe they're laying now. Doubtless this will involve more track shredding and destruction. Apart from all that, everything is just peachy. Keep an eye on them Steve, the Water Co put a large high pressure main through our old allotment site and mysteriously a lot of our rich topsoil disappeared, one of our number calculated from the drop in levels that there were a considerable number of lorry loads taken. The stuff they brought back afterwards wasn't enough to level the site and suddenly we had Japanese Knot Weed on the site too. Good topsoil is a saleable commodity, be wary. -- Regards Bob Hobden 17mls W. of London.UK |
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On 31 Jan, 11:40, "
wrote: anybody want to let me know how its going on your patch I am waiting for a new Rhubarb and wondered what I'd put at the bottom of it before planting and where to put it - I had a good sign really, I arrived at the lotty to find what looked like the remnents of a feast from our local foxes, a huge dead magpie and several bones (which looked like lamb to me). So I've burried the lot, lots of om, and I'll put the rhubarb just where I've found the lot. The foxes had two cubs - I saw them playing in the sunshine - lovely ![]() |
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